Business owners today become overwhelmed in the vast of work they have to do when they start their business. If you think that you cannot handle all the work in your business maybe this is the right time to hire a Virtual Assistant.

Hiring a virtual assistant can allow you to grow your business and to focus more on important transaction that can make you progressive. While you focus on your business, you can also attract a lot of clients and drive more money to your business.

Hiring a virtual assistant is a little bit scary, especially if this is your first time to hire one. You have to keep in mind many things before hiring a VA. If you are ready to leap, here are 7 useful tips to find a great virtual assistant:

1.First, you need to observe all the activities that you have to do for at least one to two weeks. Do not forget to write down all the activities that you do during business days. This is important to know which specific work your virtual assistant should handle.

2.It is important to take note the number of hours each task takes. After knowing the number of hours each task take, you will then find out which task is very time consuming. You will also determine which task is not enjoyable and difficult to do.

3.After classifying the kind of activities that you do from the easiest to the hardest work, you need to decide which tasks you can hand over to the virtual assistant.

4.To be able to find a virtual assistant that is competent enough, you can post job offer to all major social networking websites such as Facebook and twitter. You may also ask fellow business owners for referrals.

5.Contact one of the potential virtual assistant, but do not concentrate with just one applicant. Make sure to have a variety of choices to be able to find the perfect VA that is qualifies and compatible to the skills that you need for a VA.

6.You may also conduct some interviews and examination to know that skills and competence of all the applicants.

7.It is important to choose a virtual assistant that has a personal know how about your business. For example, you are on a car rental business, you need to ensure that the VA you are going to hire is knowledgeable about cars.

Once the entire process of hiring is over, you can meet your VA via an online call using a webcam or personal.